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The wisdom of crowds versus the madness of mobs: An evolutionary model of bias, polarization, and...
By Jon Dron 29 October 2022 @ 10:19amjournals.sagepub.com - This is a math-heavy, long, but extremely rewarding paper modelling collective behaviour from a dynamic evolutionary perspective, demonstrating (I think very effectively) that collective ignorance and polarization are likely to be amplified by...Social Media Use Linked to Developing Depression Regardless of Personality | University of Arkansas
By Jon Dron 4 October 2022 @ 5:00pmnews.uark.edu - This describes an interesting study that seems to confirm social media use can be harmful no matter who you are though, as the article notes, more research is needed to confirm the findings. Quite a few similar studies have come to quite similar...Course: Applied Social Network Analysis in Education
By Jon Dron 23 October 2021 @ 1:46pmbookdown.org - This is an interesting and largely open course that teaches social network analysis, applied in the context of education (though it is much more about social network analysis in general). It has quite comprehensive coverage, including ethical...We still need to unlock the web
By Jon Dron 26 September 2020 @ 11:20amwerd.io - This is a bit of brainstorming by the ever wonderful and utterly brilliant Ben Werdmüller von Elgg (one of the originators of the Elgg social media framework that sits under the Landing) on methods and standards for setting up payments for...Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse on the site | Ars Technica
By Jon Dron 13 February 2017 @ 12:32pm Comments (2)arstechnica.com - Reporting on a very interesting study (linked from the article) on aggressive comments on Wikipedia pages, revealing that less than half of all personal attacks on the site are from anonymous users. Although it is true (as conventional wisdom...An Introduction to Social Media for Scientists
By Jon Dron 27 January 2017 @ 6:52pmjournals.plos.org - A practical guide for researchers wishing to make use of the social web in a professional academic context. Given the intent to offer an introduction as to why social media should matter to the academic research community, it provides quite a good...danah boyd | apophenia » Why America is Self-Segregating
By Jon Dron 23 January 2017 @ 4:31pmwww.zephoria.org - A thoughtful piece from danah boyd on how difficult it is to avoid self-segregation in online (as well as physical) communities: in simplistic terms, that we tend to gravitate to those we see as like us, away from those that seem different, and that...dlvr.it: Smart Social Media Automation
By Jon Dron 15 January 2017 @ 3:01pmhttps://dlvrit.com/ - One of a number of services, tools and plugins to enable syndication of content to and from various social media. As far as I can tell this is, in some ways, not quite as smart as something like Known, inasmuch as (from a cursory glance) it seems to...Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm.
By Jon Dron 9 January 2017 @ 2:26pmwww.benkler.org - Yochai Benkler's seminal paper from 2002, introducing themes later explored in greater depth in the Wealth of Networks (very highly recommended, albeit very long indeed). In this shorter and earlier paper, he outlines his central notion of a third...115 Must Know Facts about Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC] - 2016
By Jon Dron 12 December 2016 @ 4:23pmskilled.co - Quite an interesting infographic snapshot of a (small but significant) subset of popular social media sites and their users, in infographic form, with sources. Gives a good overview of who, how, why and to what extent people tend to use some popular...
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COMP 650: Social Computing
In support of COMP 650, Social Computing
